"So, how you feeling, Bowser?" Metal Mario's eyes looked lifeless, as it looked all metal. "You ARE NOT REAL! IT'S ALL JUST IN MY HEAD! ALL OF THIS!!" "You can believe anythimg you want Bowser. But no matter what, you still have guilt." "Huh?" Metal Mario seemed to blink, then disapear. "ARGH!" Bowser woke up from his terrible dream. Was it real? Bowser looked around his room. His bed, his wall, his photos. All there. A koopa burst into the room. "Boss, are you okay?" "Yes, I'm okay. And, please, boost up security." "On it, sir. Oh, by the way, nice Mario hat." "Mario hat?" Koopa shut the door, but Bowser didn't notice. Instead, he stared at the metal cap on his bedside, on top of his end table. Bowser lifted the cap closer to his eyes. He couldn't read it, so he turned on a lamp. He squinted at the scribbly writing. "I am real. 2041" Bowser got a tingle that traveled up his spine. "2041. 2041..."
"Excellent. My plan is working. Soon, The Mushroom Kingdom will be mine, and no one will stand in my way!!" SHadow Mario roared a terrible laugh. His red eyes lifeless, untearing. "With Mario out of the way, Princess Peach in my possesion, and Bowser gone dilusionial, it's working better then I expected." Shadow Mario laughed again. He looked to the right. Dozens of Toads cowering, shaking. THey were tied up, prisoners. Peach was tied up next to them. "Oh, you mean person!! Mario will come here, and take back the crown!!" "Don't worry about that, doll. Mario is dead. Zip, nada, nothing. No one will get in my way!!" Peach held her tears back. Could it be true? No, it couldn't. It was Mario, for goomba's sake! "Mario will come. I bet he is in this castle right now!" "Oh, he is." Shadow Mario pulled a lever, and Mario's lifeless body came down from the roof, tied to a rope like a piniata. Peach, along with her Toad servents, gasped in horror. "No, it can't be. It's Mario..." Peach trailed off. Shadow Mario started to hit Mario like, again, a piniata. "How about Luigi? He surely must be coming here." Peach was running out of options. If the Mario brothers are dead, who will rescue the MUshroom Kingdsom from it's own destruction? "Oh, don't worry, he's right here with me. I servant of me, if you will." Peach was shocked. "So he's..." "Master Keif, yes..."
"What have I become?" Luigi starred at his massive muscles. He was still holding Mario's hat. "DId I..." Luigi remembered now. Shadow Mario kidnapped him, brainwashed him, and put a spell on him to get such massive muscles. "I killed Mario." Luigi sobbed in his bed. Shadow Mario gave him a big room in Bowser's castle. In fact, it was Bowser's room! "I can't believe I have done this." Luigi retracted his muscles, and soon, he was the same skinny Luigi. He walked out of the castle, and his jaw opened. "What happened?"
"Okay Bowser, get ahold of yourself, man!" Bowser rocked back and forth in his small apartment. He ran away from Shadow Mario's guards. "THey killed Mario, I know that. Luigi was been turned bad, I know that. But what about Metal Mario?" He still rocked back and forth. The mario hat was still by his bedside. Bowser noticed that it was metal looking. "What does that note mean. 'I am real. 2041'?" Bowser wasn't the guy he used to be. Anything metal, silverware, bikes, the TV in his room, had voices coming out that sounded like Mario, Metal Mario. Bowser was worried. Ghosts haunt his mind. Mario's ghost was the largest of all. "Don't worry Bowser, your time will come." A faint voice echoed. "Huh, who said that?" "Your mind is restless, haunted by things that you can't understand. I will come for you, my old friend, just right now, I need to take care of some, other business." "Show me who you are!" "Soon, my old chum, soon..."
"What has happened to the Mushroom KIngdom?" Luigi stared throughout the land before him. Buildings on fire, robbers stealing P-wings, gangs shooting people. It was something Luigi had never seen. "This is horrible." Shadow Mario went towards him. "It's wonderful, that's what it is." "No, it isn't right. The MUshroom Kingdom is suposed to be a happy place, not one with crime and unjustice." "That's how it should be. Anyone can do anything they want. The problem with the world is that it's too contained, unfree. With me, the world is anyone's oyster. They can do whatever, be whatever." "No, you're mad!" "No I'm nt. The world has always wanted to be like this, able to roam around without the authorties knowing where you are roaming. It's perfect. The perfect kingdom." "But this is mad! The mUshroom Kingdom is not suposed to be this way!" "Hey, first the Mushroom Kingdom, maybe the world, who knows, maybe the universe!" "I don't beleive any of this!" "Beleive whatever you want to beleive. That's the beauty of this world that I have created." "No, no. It can't. It shouldn't. It wouldn't." "Whatever you say, Luigi. You are my king in my game of chess."